Not everything clear in the Bullseye announcement
Hi everyone,
I'm just trying to translate the Bullseye announcement draft and I stumbled
across some things I couldn't quite make sense of. Meybe you can help me out
and we can improve the announcement on the way.
> <p>
> Driverless printing and scanning are possible without the need for vendor
> specific (often non-free) drivers. Most modern printers are able to use
> driverless printing implemented via CUPS and cup-filters, bullseye brings
> forward a new package, ipp-usb, which uses vendor neutral IPP-over-USB
> allowing a USB device to be treated as a network device.
First of all, this sentence is suspciously long, maybe there was supposed to be
a period after "cup-filters" (cups-filters?).
What puzzled me is ipp-usb. The paragraph states that it can be used to treat a
USB printer like a network printer, but CUPS can handle USB printers just fine.
Why would anyone need this so much that we mention it in a press release? Does
it help with driverless printing?
> <p>
> The Debian Med team has been taking part in the fight against COVID-19
> by packaging software for researching the virus on the sequence level
> and for fighting the pandemic with the tools used in epidemiology. The team's
> work with Quality Assurance and Continuous integration is critical to the
> consistent reproducible results required in the sciences.
>
> A range of performance critical applications now benefite from SIMD Everywhere,
SIMD what? OK, I searched the web, I know now what SIMD Everywhere is (it makes
certain features from x86 processors available on ARM[1]) but I'm not sure why
this is of concern of our users. They just apt-get their software and don't
care about anything else. Is it a way to tell people "whip out your RasPis, you
can run any of the med-* packages on it and they're gonna run as fast as on a
PC"?
Plus, I'd like it if we dropped the hard disk from "install Debian onto your
computer's hard disk" in the live media section. It has some of a oldschool
vibe to it, not only because hard disks are out of style but because nobody
talks that way anymore (people just install software "on their computers",
regardless of the storage technology). We're too modern to sound oldschool 😉
Sooo, any opinions?
Cheers,
Erik
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